From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 14 13:32:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11592 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org ([207.109.235.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11587 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@uffdaonline.net) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA01037; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:28:53 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19990214152853.A719@znh.org> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:28:53 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install -C References: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:05:41AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:05:41AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > My main argument against always installing certain files with "install > -C" is that makes it very difficult to clean up after a major upgrade, > since you can't rely on "live" files to have a recent timestamp. I've > talked to people on IRC who deleted their Elf interpreter because its > mtime predated their last make world. Shooting yourself in the foot > like that is too high a price for the few seconds saved during make > installworld. Use 'ctime' instead of 'mtime'. This works for everything but perl... -- Zach Heilig / Zach Heilig "Americans are sensitive about their money, and since this was the first major change in the greenback in nearly 70 years, a radical redesign might have been too much for consumers to comprehend" -- John Iddings [COINage, Feb. 1999]. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message